Nutc Clusters: A Short Story

Tom has been controlled by wealth ever since he was born into a rich family. Tom and Daisy’s negligence is what eradicates their morality. Their view of life is absurd which causes their foolish actions. Money is their leverage against society and the world. Tom also continues to show his licentiousness through his affair with Myrtle. When Tom and Myrtle first exchanged looks at the garage, Myrtle “walked through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye” (Fitzgerald 26). Tom then says, “I want to see you. Get on the next train” (Fitzgerald 26). Being already married to Daisy, Tom still decides to have relationships with other women, clearly indicating the his indecency. He acts as if what he is doing is acceptable because his possession of money provides him a sense of self-conceit. The upper class assumes that since they have money, they are able to do anything they want, whether it is ethical or not. Based on the events in East Egg, Fitzgerald is able to explicitly stress how wealth is one of the factors that intensifies moral decay in society.

Tom and Daisy were an example of how money could impact someone’s life. Daisy was able to get away with murder and an affair untouched because of her social class. She was unaffected and able to go back to living her normal

Mayella Ewell is not powerful dues to her class. Scout described the Ewell's house when she said “ Maycomb's Ewells lived behind the garbage dump”(Get Back To Your Dump). Scout is saying that the house of the Ewells compares to the City dump. Scout said ”White people wouldn't have anything to do with her because she lived amongst pigs”(The loneliest person in the world). Even people of her own race were against her because of her class. Mayella's low class makes her unrespected, even by blacks and upper class whites.

One of the three ways we see Mayella grow to be powerful is through her social class. Mayella's social class affects how much power she has. Even though she is a part of an extremely low social class, she learns how to make this have a positive effect on her growth of power. Mayella’s house is anything but glamorous, she lives behind the dump and the only thing that is cared for in the house is six red geraniums. These six red geraniums belong to Mayella representing her six siblings. Despite Mayella having six siblings, she does not get help with all the chores she has to do. Tom Robinson notices this and starts to feel bad for Mayella, so he helps her with them. However, Tom should not feel bad for her because she is white, and he is black. “‘ you’re a

Mayella has no power or the upper hand on neither social class, and gender; although, she does have power in her race this is the only reason as to why she wins the trial against Tom Robinson. Mayella is stuck in an abusive household as a result of her inability as a woman to leave and begin a new life this leads to a big downfall for Mayella Ewell. She even struggles with meeting new people and communicating, due to her lack of social interactions. Mayella Ewell’s lack of social interactions is a direct result of her low class and the others looking down on her family. The only way Mayella is able to win anything in her life would only be because she is white. While race does not have the ability to determine power, a person must hold advantages in other components like social class, or gender to be considered “powerful”. Thus, because of Mayella’s disadvantages, she can never really be considered

Mayella is not very powerful when it comes to her class because her family of poor and does not have everything that everyone else has that live around them. Her house is not the nicest either. “It’s windows were merely open spaces in the walls… What passed for a fence was bits of tree-limbs, broomsticks and tool shafts… Enclosed by this barricade was a dirty yard.”(Lee, chapter 17). People also felt bad for Mayella and tried to help her, but then they just got in serious trouble. “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her…” (Lee, chapter 19). When people in their community tried to help them out like Tom Robinson, they would get accused of hurting or raping her, when they were just trying the be nice and helpful.

Mayella Ewell has no social class power, because she is poor. Mayella and her family live near the town dump which used to be a Negro camp. The author wrote, “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin”(Lee Document A). The Ewell family is being represented as trash since they live next to the town dump. During the trial, Mayella tries to clean up and look nice when she takes the stand. Scout says that, “Mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean,”(Lee Document A). Although the Ewells do not have much money, Mayella tries to make beauty out of what she has. Therefore, Mayella has no social class power due to the fact that she is poor.

Seemed like every time I passed by yonder she’d have some little something for me to do, chopping, kindling, toting water for her…” (Lee, pg 191) Tom would pass Miss Mayella’s house going to work and leaving work, and every time she would call him in for him to do a chore for her. Mr. Robinson would do it even though he had chores to do at home, he did it because of his kind heart. “Were you paid for your service?” “ No, sir not after she offered me a nickel the first time. I was glad to do it….. And I knew she didn’t have a nickel to spare.” (Lee, pg 191) Tom didn’t even get paid to do so, he didn’t want to get paid because he respected others and was willing to help. However, one day when Tom was helping Miss. Mayella with an unusual job, she made advancements on him that were unnecessary, “Mr. Finch, I got down off of that chair and turned around and she sorta jumped on me.” (Lee, pg 194) Miss Mayella was trying to make sexual advancements towards Mr. Robinson even though all he was trying to do was help. Later on, throughout the story, Mr. Ewell, Miss Mayella's father sent Tom away to prison and Tom was eventually shot to death by the prison guards. “They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They got him just as he went over to the fence. They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him.” (Lee, pg 235) All of this would not

He was on the lower end of income; his family wasn’t rich to begin with. Edward Willy still lived in the same apartment, on the 7th floor. Not a big apartment, just a 1 bedroom apartment with a kitchenette and a bathroom. His apartment was as small as a

Mayella is from a low class and she is a woman, this making her powerless. Yet as a white person in that town, she is powerful over Tom Robinsons’ life. Mayella Ewell was of very low class in the society. She also lives amongst the blacks, so the whites don’t talk to her, and considering her color the blacks don’t talk to her either. “The Ewells live behind the

Mayella is viewed by the entire town as an outcast. She wants to desperately change that. It’s pretty hard when your family is the town joke. Mayella is trying her best to become apart of her town and separate herself from her “white-trash” family by using Tom Robinson as a way for that attention. She decides to lie in court saying Tom raped her when really it was her father. Mayella babbles on and on about Tom Robinson and then Mr. Finch to where eventually she breaks down and starts balling. “ Judge Taylor let her cry for a bit and then said, “‘That’s enough now. Now you’re a big girl,...’” (chp 18) She uses her crying tantrum to draw the attention of the courtroom to herself. Mayella feels that if she is able to convict a black man of rape, she will fit into society because she has committed a racist act. Being racist will allow her to think she has slipped into society and feel somewhat accepted because everyone feels sorry for

In fact, the reason her power scale is low at all is because of her social class. If all three factors of power were in the picture, the trial wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did. Mayella Ewell did not have a great social image or life. The only beautiful part of her life were the “six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for tenderly,” (Lee 228). Her home is placed right next to the dump and their house is in shambles. As well as a terrible home life, her social image is very low. The people of Maycomb universally agree with this statement, “okay, we’ll convict this Negro but get back to your dump,” (Lee 335) concerning the Ewells. It is safe to say that Tom Robinson was the only person who ever showed Mayella kindness. Mayella Ewell's poverty and social image severely limits her power and is the main cause of her situation. However, she still holds power in her race and gender and those factors do not prevent her from changing her situation, her social class

Both Mayella and Tom were ranked on the lower end of the social scale. Tom was ranked lower due to his race and Mayella was ranked lower because of her gender and class. She lived behind a dump that used to be occupied by African Americans and the town of Maycomb looked down on that. That’s why she went to court over Tom Robinson because she wanted to not be seen as an outcast. She wanted to escape what her father made her family out to be. In this situation she seems powerless, but she actually had a great deal of power because she had a plan: a plan to get away from her father and she was not going to stop the plan at the expense of someone else’s life, even if they generally cared about

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